January transfers AND the Chelsea factor affected the Torres price. If he CAN regain even two thirds of what he had early on at L'pool(and the fitness reports at the end of last season suggest the often quoted loss of pace over ten, twenty or fifty yards is BS)then he will make up a lot of the cost in no time.
I realise that Torres didn't come off for Carlo but his head wasn't right even at Liverpool this season and that's what he also needs to conquer at Chel...
Do we? SFL his showing his age and the weight of games he's played for Chelsea and England when Gerard and Rooney took clever breaks from unimportant England fixtures for the benefit of their club Lamps always played for the national side even when he was hated by fans and press alike. Point is for the first time he's starting not to be as fit as usual and will play fewer and fewer games over the next two years. Essien isn't what he was and is possibly now in career over position ...
Unless there's a shock Citeh bid i'd say abroad too with Inter faves. Chelsea were, as far as I'm told, NEVER interested for whatever reason.
Bit of a mess.i'm guessing Levy doesn't want to admit that Chelsea arew the "bigger" club but as far as current success goes they simply ARE and if he did get modric to sign an extension by promising certain things he should, at the very least, talk about them without threats. I don't feel Modric is necessarily the right player for Chelsea,despite my being a huge fan of him and his abilities, but will cave to boas' and the club's desire on this one despite thinki...
Moutinho would be a better fit for the Essien role as Modric can't do the same kind of destructive work whereas Moutinho might-Modric is the creative influence Chelsea want but that transfer is getting MESSY. I'm just gutted Chelsea aren't buying any wide players. I know Villas likes 4 3 3 with TWO strikers and one true wide player but we haven't got ONE at the minute so what's going on is anyone's guess-as is usual at Chelsea these days.
Well,if we'd seen the real Essien last season it MIGHT have been the massive blow it was the last time his knee went but he's just NEVER gonna be that player again and would, I'd bet a house on it, have been on his way out had this not happened. It's really just a financial blow I reckon in losing what Chelsea would have gotten for him-I just never see him returning to being the terror he once was, which is really sad.
Because it's SO hard to be an ex pro incapable of even being a decent pundit, let alone do anything in coaching and to knock a player who's YET to ever fully recover from injuries, isn't it? Aldridge is a man who played for a country he had barely any link to judging a passionate Spaniard just because he's left Aldridge's old club-it's that simple. Also, torres was barely supported during his latter days at KLiverpool and possible took too long to leave and stepping up...
And not just greed, if you imply that's the only reason to go anywhere but Utd, anyway Chelsea just aren't really in for him ~A~T ALL so this is a straight fight between the Manchester clubs imho. He might want to be building history rather than adding to it, though, so even going to Citeh doesn't always mean greed you know. He's got a great chance of making a name for himself there rather than being one of many at Utd. Utd isn't the only romantic destination for footballe...
Well, he's a Real player by all accounts so quite why Chelsea or City keep chasing the talented head case is beyond me. I guess City could offer him better terms than anyone else so if it's greed that motivates him he might back out on Madrid but I cannot see it-someone was trying to tell me the presence of Alex, Ramires and Luiz was going to encourage him to come to Chelsea but imho it's a year too late, he's now too expensive and too much of a risk at that price and esp in t...
Bt if you were it wouldn't be for much more than Chelsea supposedly offered. Barca aren't saying they will only sell if Chelsea or whoever(and who would for a 29 year old striker these days-even one as good as Villa?)meet the buyout they're either just wanting more cash(everyone has a price at every club, trust me)for something(or someone) or plain don';t see a reason to sell at all. I'm tempted to think they're just seeing what they can get for him, try and get a coup...
You can't compare the two and Pele should keep his class and do that by keeping his mouth shut. Pele played at a different time and never played in the tougher European leagues and we also never saw Pele in his prime at a WC either.There are many reasons to doubt even HIS pedigree(I don't but say you COULD by saying about things like this the evidence simply isn't there)but I don't see Messi doing that-are we to think he's got more class than someone widely accepted as the...
Pele shows very little class by saying this kind of thing.Fact is, though we hear a lot about Pele, the World never really saw the best of him(he was a kid in Sweden, missed the next through injury, got kicked to bits in '66 and wasn't at his best, even though still great, by 1970. Most of his most amazing displays were for Santos and aren't on tape for us to judge. Thing is, though, it's for other people, and NOT Pele, t say how great he was/is/would have been compared to the...
If Andre didn't already know Chelsea inside out(an the Prem) I'd agree but serving under Jose at the club should allow him to know exactly what's coming.
Not MUCH of a gamble to a manager in a career where you could be sacked at any club at any time and Chelsea offer you a very good shot at both glory AND a certainty of financial security FOR life if you win or you screw it all up. Where's the gamble?
Did Jose's have issues with finding work after Chelsea had already made him independently wealthy? Will Carlo? did Claudio? Christ, even Grant got more jobs on the back of the Chelsea stint he did! I just don't see a ...
He also led us into the two most insipid capitulations in European competition I can remember from a Chelsea side since Ranieri left AND in the middle of the season managed our worst ever run of PL/all competition form in decades.
People tend to forget, and it's OK because like the idiotic sacking of Wilkins which also helped Chelsea lose their way this season he knew the score when he arrived. He came to make Chelsea play prettier football(only partially achieved) and to...
The UK press WILL bring all this down. Trust me. Maybe not this time but soon, very soon.
International football is a joke because of the state this idiot let Fifa fall into. The EPL and England Nationalteam needs to strike out alone and make it clear that anyone else is free to leave the corrupt fools at Fifa and Uefa and join them. We in England don't need Uefa and we don't need ifa. Sod internationals anyway-load of shite.
What honour in winning any of their competitions now?Batca are basically Uefa's pet team(not even like they need the help!)and t...
No, McEachran isn't "pretty" good and unlike the ludicrously lauded(and rightly so in terms of raw talent) Kakuta will NOT be sent on loan, I'm told, unless it's abroad and to a BIG club. Josh is the one youth player this season who impressed consistently at every level he plaed at at Chelsea and will be fixture in next years first team squad and depending on signings and who leaves I feel his chances will probably rocket this coming year. For the first time since, proll...
The last time Barca were made to look completely at sea in a CL tie was when they needed the help of the match officials(in denying AT LEAST four stonewall penalties)to sneak past Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in Hiddink's last CL game at Chelsea before the Rome final where Barca beat Utd.
Fergie SHOULD have watched what Hiddink got Chelsea to do that night in tying up the likes of Iniesta until Messi became a peripheral figure. Make no mistake Iniesta's last ditch strik...
Yeh, I hate to say it but after seeing the Ovrebo match in the flesh(and following Uefa's comments that afternoon) it's impossible not to suspect Uefa if having a certain pet club which can do anything which other clubs have and do get done for. I've been watching since as I didn't want my gut feeling to be right but there's just so much pro Barca movement that it's hard to think otherwise.
The media insist we all love Barca and Uefa help enaure an alr...